The biggest frauds of recent decades have all involved Big Money overcoming common sense.
Enough Big Money and, it is clear, people will believe what they know to be impossible - indeed they are positively eager and zealous to believe what they know to be impossible.
A clear and uncontroversial example is the Theranos Fraud.
I watched a speech by the alleged-CEO (but possibly just a puppet-front?) claiming they would develop a way of removing blood from veins without breaking the skin.
This is obviously impossible - but most of the talk was about what enormous advantages there would be from such a breakthrough - how marvellous it would be if you could get blood out from blood vessels without needing to make a hole.
The reported fact that "so many" people invested loads of money into this scheme (albeit mostly other peoples' money) - plus liberal helpings of pseudo-scientific gobbledegook - made people overcome what was obvious common sense, and assume that the impossible was actually possible.
But Theranos was a negligible sideshow - one country and hundreds of millions of dollars, compared with the global fraud of hundreds of trillions due to the CO2 Climate scam, and the "AI" scam.
(Both actually occult parasitic totalitarian social engineering.)
Yet, if it wasn't for the mind-distorting effect of Giga-dollar-money (and the vast forces of personnel and propaganda that it buys); both the CO2-Climate and "AI" claims would have very obviously failed the test of common sense.
But when it comes to Climate and "AI"; the Bigness of the Money combines with the Bigness of the claims stuns people into a passive state of bewildered and gullible acceptance...
(i.e. A species of PSYOP.)
Surely (people infer) "they" couldn't be making such unimaginably, indeed un-believably, immense claims; if there was not a solid basis for them?
Well, yes "they" have-done, can, and still-do Exactly That - and indeed the process has become routine.
"Business" as usual...
Enough money and resources - and people will believe... Anything.
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The American Quakers were noted for the view that the more money one has the more one wants. Abundant examples one billion not enough, have to have 10 etc. Its like kids playing a pinball game, some just are instatiable greedy demons.
As the only one I know about who predicted covid - on spiritual grounds! - Your quick posting in the last few days is worrying me!
I have to mention one a few days ago. The one about Jesus as a new divine creator. I am too detached to feel it in the bone. That is just me. But yet likely lost to the pace of change. It is a pity the billions of Christians seem unreachable - at least right now. Words do not suffice.
"Enough money and resources - and people will believe... Anything."
That will surely be the sorry epitaph of our dying civilization.
One thing I've noticed is that the people who stand to benefit most from the money and the resources tend to be the weakest believers, while those who will benefit the least or, more accurately, will be harmed the most, tend to the truest of believers.
The ones who benefit immensely pretend to believe, with all their hearts and souls, and loudly advertise and promote their claims, but somehow it always strikes me as disingenuous (they know whatever they are pushing is fake and false to a large degree but feign ignorance of that knowledge).
Meanwhile, the true believers, the middle-manager types and everyday people--who will receive zero benefits from Big Money -- really do believe the hype, all while somehow remaining willingly oblivious of the immense harm the magic of Big Money will do to them.
Willingly oblivious because I find it hard to believe that people like low-level HR workers lack the intelligence to comprehend that their jobs will soon disappear because of AI. Yet the very same people are AI's biggest cheerleaders. It really is something to behold.
@RJC - I think that when people get very rich, they want more money - not for itself - but mainly because it buys power and influence: that's what they spend it on.
@Tobias - I did predict the Birdemic, but I also predicted other things that did not happen. I have too many false positive hunches to rely on them....
@Frank - "people who stand to benefit most from the money and the resources tend to be the weakest believers, while those who will benefit the least or, more accurately, will be harmed the most, tend to the truest of believers."
That's very true. Perhaps this is what divides the ruling class from their servants?
In many ways, it makes the middling believers the most spiritually endangered group of all - because their error is buried from themselves, by ingrained habits of short-termism, materialism; and their enslavement by negative motivations.
I was appalled by the normal attitudes among academic colleagues in universities - who deliberately self-blinded to the consequences of every policy change that was imposed. Underneath there was a great deal of timidity - fear - and a great deal of fatalism - despair. Their genuine positive motivations (e.g. to do true and valuable research, to teach well) are also very weak.
the are natural followers, natural "bureaucrats", and their individuality is channelled into the tiny domain of making the best for themselves of the situation as it emerges.
What is really harmful, though, is the mental side of all this - that all consciousness of this is suppressed, permanently. They conclude that because they cannot individually do anything to stop of reverse the trends, "therefore" they should pretend that the trend is a Good Thing. It makes everything easier and less unpleasant.
In a world where materialism is normal and where religion is almost wholly social; the individual would need to have some reference outside of society, outside of expediency - and in the much longer term. from such a position, the individual would be able to evaluate the imposed changes - and when these are judged evil, to separate his own values from them.
In other words, these middling people have excluded the "transcendent"; and are therefore irrevocably mired-in the here-and-now of society and their personality-selves. They will have better intuitions from time to time, but these are accorded no fundamental significance or value - and so expedience always wins.
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